Techahuatl (MH791r)

Techahuatl (MH791r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techahuatl is attested here as a man's name. The translation of the name remains elusive. Might it have something to do with chahuatl (concubne)? The glyph has been built onto the head of the tribute payer. Three singl-line speech scrolls emerge from his mouth, one curling upward, and two downward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas techavatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Techahuatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
visible sound
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, concubinas, volutas, palabras, chisme

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Techahuatl, a name (attested male), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techahuatl
chahua(tl), a concubine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chahuatl
te- (nonspecific human object), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 791r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=656&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: